Maintenance Planner and Scheduler

North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) provides vital wholesale water, wastewater and solid waste management services to more than two million people who call North Texas their home. Our culture is deeply ingrained in our core values of Integrity, Trust, Respect, Unity, Service, and Teamwork (ITRUST). Our employees will tell you they feel a sense of purpose and have a daily opportunity to make a positive impact on the cities we serve by helping to provide services that their residents and businesses need to thrive.

We offer an array of excellent benefits, including comprehensive health and wellness packages, generous paid time off, professional development opportunities, and a robust pension plan to help secure our employees’ financial future. If you are looking for a rewarding, long-term career where you can make a meaningful impact on the North Texas region, look no further than NTMWD!

Job Description

Summary:

The Maintenance Planner and Scheduler is responsible for establishing, maintaining, executing, and improving all elements of a planning and scheduling process in pursuit of safe, efficient, and effective maintenance practices for the purpose of achieving desired levels of service at acceptable levels of risk for the assigned division(s). The overriding purpose of this position is increasing plant reliability, cost effectiveness and reducing the risk of operational failure.

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities Works collaboratively with Maintenance Tradesmen, Plant Operators, Plant Supervisors, and Asset Risk Managers to define and guide work programs aimed at cost-effectively reducing asset failure risk and increasing plant reliability. Takes direction from Asset Risk Managers on ensuring that planned work advances asset management objectives.

Prioritizes preventive and corrective work backlog based on process criticality, equipment redundancy, and ability to reduce asset failure risk.

Conducts field inspections and determines appropriate job scopes.

Develops work plans for maintenance jobs with necessary and specific information to allow quality scheduling, assignment, and execution of maintenance work.

Coordinates with warehouse personnel to ensure parts are available for work plans.

Maintains and monitors weekly schedule of maintenance work.

Performs purchasing duties as required in advance of upcoming work to ensure materials will be available when needed. Reorders all materials that were pulled from Warehouse inventory and captured on work orders.

Verifies all material, information, equipment, tools, and labor are available prior to scheduling. Stage materials and special tools as required. Ensures all outside contract services are secured to include line locates, paving, traffic plans, permits and paving restoration.

Participates in and guide work order quality control processes. Provides direction to staff in correctly coding work orders, adding time equipment, materials and any outside vendor service to the work order to capture cost.

Participates in planning for plant or pipeline shutdowns and provide support during emergency shutdowns.

Coordinates planned maintenance needs with operational functions to minimize downtime.

Coordinate the work of contractors, vendors, Engineering, and Central Maintenance with staff-completed jobs to ensure that priority work is completed as planned and documented appropriately.

Leads in using and enforcing the usage of the NTMWD enterprise asset management system and other computer applications to control and support maintenance work.

Collects and analyzes asset and work-related data to improve maintenance and operation practices. Recommends changes and improvements to maintenance practices.

Provides technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel.

Remains current on safety guidelines as required by State statutes and as prescribed by the NTMWD.Works collaboratively with Information Systems staff and Dispatchers to create, use, and maintain plant history and other technical files to include information in current job plans to anticipate and avoid job delays and increase efficiencies.

Participates in multi-disciplinary project work that is consistent with mission, vision and values of NTMWD.Remains current on industry standards and trends which may impact or improve the operations of NTMWD.Must observe all safety rules and regulations at all times including on job sites.

Carries out other duties as requested commensurate with skills, competence, and training.

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